by Khadija Khan
• January 28, 2017 at 5:00 am
- Mullahs seem to
prefer protecting inhuman laws to protecting humans.
- Most full
coverings for women are black, which absorbs heat, and are made not of
cotton but of non-porous cloth - in the scorching heat.
- In a province of
Indonesia, Aceh, a woman, accused of being intimate with her boyfriend
is caned, in front of a jeering crowd. Later, a photograph of the
screaming woman is published as a token of pride for the men who had
just exacted this "justice" -- on her; no consequence
for the boyfriend. It was a lesson to remind women to submit to their
place in society.
- Turkey last year
presented a bill for tackling its widespread child-marriage issue: the
Turkish government introduced a bill that pardons a rapist if he
marries his victim. The victim is not consulted.
- All forms of
exploiting women are presented as divine law, sharia, in which women
have no say, which they are unable to use in their own defence, and
which they are forced to accept as their fate.
- These are
countries where men are not only permitted, but invited, to
consider woman a pet -- to be killed, burned with acid, benzene or a
weapon of choice supposedly to preserve a family's "honour".
- These laws, put
in place by the governments and the clergy, provide a safe escape for
criminals, such as those who kill their women and claim it is in the
name of "honour".
- The deeper horror
is that all these abuses -- child marriage, confinement, FGM, rape,
torture, and legal discrimination -- have accomplices. These
enablers are often well-meaning people from the West,
"multiculturalists" who are reluctant to pass judgement on
other people's customs no matter how brutal they might be.
- Sadly, they are
unable to see that they are actually part of the huge jihadi radicalization
machine working under the very nose of even governments in the West.
- As the British in
India effectively got rid the people of the cultural practice of suttee,
in which Hindu widows were required to throw themselves on their
husband's funeral pyre, if people would really like to do
"good", they will please help to stop similar crushing
practices.
A sharia-policeman canes a woman who was accused of
being intimate with her boyfriend, in Aceh, Indonesia. (Image source: Getty
Images)
A bitter truth, often glossed over in the name of
"tradition," is the religious teachings and the responsibilities
of a Muslim woman. Most glossed over is the violence that men are still
allowed to inflict on their women in the name of their religion and culture
on such a massive part of the planet.
This brutality not only takes place in ISIS-held territory but across
most Muslim societies. All around you, you see women killed, molested,
imprisoned, maimed and incarcerated while their men sugar-coat the abuse as
"modesty", "honour", "divine law" or even
"justice".
In addition to warning would-be ISIS recruits of the horrors that
await them if they jump onto the bandwagon of terrorist organizations, let
us take a look into "normal" Muslim societies.
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